It's always worth wading through the seemingly endless Breaking Bad vs. The Wire/Mad Men debates just to get to things like this (y'know, comments actually about the episode being reviewed)

'welcome to Pitchfork, where we criticize solid rock albums by great bands, but go out of our way to praise the indie flavor-of-the-week that sounds like everyone else and will be forgotten in 3 months.'

I think they've released some great music since Vitalogy, and there's no doubt that Jack Irons and Matt Cameron were/are both top notch drummers. But I fully agree that Dave Abbruzzese's overall style and approach to playing is what set those two albums and touring years above the rest for me. A lot of it also had to…